With this book—his most ambitious yet—Ken McGoogan delivers a vivid, comprehensive recasting of Arctic-exploration history. Dead Reckoning challenges the conventional narrative, which emerged out of Victorian England and focused almost exclusively on Royal Navy officers. By integrating non-British and fur-trade explorers and, above all, Canada’s indigenous peoples, into the his...(展开全部)

With this book—his most ambitious yet—Ken McGoogan delivers a vivid, comprehensive recasting of Arctic-exploration history. Dead Reckoning challenges the conventional narrative, which emerged out of Victorian England and focused almost exclusively on Royal Navy officers. By integrating non-British and fur-trade explorers and, above all, Canada’s indigenous peoples, into the his...(展开全部)

史景迁（Jonathan D. Spence），1936年出生于英国，是国际知名的中国近现代史专家，1965—2008年在美国耶鲁大学历史系任教。著作极丰，主要有《追寻现代中国》、《雍正王朝之大义觉迷》、《太平天国》、《改变中国》、《曹寅与康熙》、《康熙》、《天安门》、《大汗之国：西方眼中的中国》、《王氏之死》、《利玛窦的记忆宫殿》、《胡若望的疑问》。

"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history....(展开全部)

"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history....(展开全部)

The leading textbook by the leading scholar. This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged from Spence’s highly successful introductory course at Yale, in which he traced the beginnings of modern China to internal developments beginning in the early 17th century. Strong on social and political history, as well as Chinese culture a...(展开全部)

史景迁（Jonathan D. Spence），1936年出生于英国，是国际知名的中国近现代史专家，1965—2008年在美国耶鲁大学历史系任教。著作极丰，主要有《追寻现代中国》、《雍正王朝之大义觉迷》、《太平天国》、《改变中国》、《曹寅与康熙》、《康熙》、《天安门》、《大汗之国：西方眼中的中国》、《王氏之死》、《利玛窦的记忆宫殿》、《胡若望的疑问》。

Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it’s time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime—a young, disheveled squar...(展开全部)

V.S. Naipaul undertook this Caribbean journey at the invitation, in 1960, of Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, the author's birthplace. At that time, the plantation colonies of the region were formed, culturally, in the image of the metropolis. Racial and political assertion had yet to catch up with them in varying ways. In Trinidad, African ra...(展开全部)

Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it’s time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime—a young, disheveled squar...(展开全部)